[E. Pluribus Unum]

Bezos wants his share of the college debt slaves.

[BenLurkin]

He must have money to burn.

[Yaelle]

Scum. Tempting poor young people to get into debt for some useless basket weaving degree.

Sadly I do enjoy Amazon prime. But this is a greedy, nasty move.

[MUDDOG]

Pay up or have a drone come after you.

[CIB-173RDABN]

student loans = 2016 version of Indenture Servant

[OrioleFan]

Next Bezos will offer all the gender studies students non-paying jobs at the Washington Post.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Wow, Amazon customers for LIFE!

[Persevero]

I’d love to see student loans returned to the private sector.

[bgill]

To offset their debt, Amazon will raise prices across the board shafting its other customers.

I didn’t owe a dime the day I received a diploma so I’ll be danged if I’m on the hook for someone else’s debt.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Student loans can be worthwhile if used to get a Bachelor's degree in a high-paying field like engineering. Ideally, the student will put in two years in a community college and then use student loans to finish their two years of upper-division work at a university.

Financing four or five years of college to study something useless like humanities or literature is a great way to destroy one's future. The only ones profiting by the college-lending swindle are the universities and the hordes of new administrative personnel they've brought in - there are a lot of university bureaucrats making six-figure salaries on the backs of student debt.

[faithhopecharity]

all the mass media hype about ‘crushing student debt’ is BS
designed to soften us up so we few remaining workers will agree to paying off the deadbeats’ loans

I had several student loans. I paid them all off and I was glad to have received them, too. Damned glad!

and yes, it delayed my purchasing some other stuff. so what? that’s both natural and unavoidable when you sign up for loans. there is no rule in life that says you can expect to just shuck your debts onto the backs of others to repay! and there is no rule saying you are entitled to renounce your promises to repay monies others entrusted to you....and just run out and buy yourself a new Corvette or even a new house.....instead. You pay your debts as promised and you buy more stuff you want in life as soon as you can afford those things ... not until.

[I want the USA back]

Obviously he expects to get money when the government pays off those loans for the students.

[Brian Griffin]

The problem is that the federal government is putting the students and parents on the hook for student debt.

Lend to the college, not the students.

The government should put colleges on the hook for the debt and then take a percentage of the graduates’ income (as per graduate/college contract) to apply against the colleges’ debt to the federal government (5% for a two-year degree, 5% more (10%) for a four-year degree, 3% more (13% for a masters degree), 7% more for a doctoral degree (20%) for six years plus the total number of college years normally needed to earn the degree, with crediting done with the first college attended getting its percentage paid first and only for the period its degree calls for repayment.

On average college is a good investment, but individually investment in college is very risky. Spread the risk as is done with health insurance.

[gattaca]

Hillary is “promising” to forgive student loans, so the timing of this might not fly.